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18 June 2026

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Combined session of departmental oral questions on culture, media, BBC governance and parliamentary bodies, followed by an Urgent Question pressing the Home Office Minister on the statutory grooming gangs inquiry, its independence, scope, victim focus and implications for wider safeguarding and policing policy.

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Oral and Urgent Questions — culture, governance and grooming gangs inquiry

34:19

Oral questions — DCMS, parliamentary bodies and Church

34:19

DCMS — culture, heritage and creative workforce

34:19

Cultural property, arts education and creative workforce

34:19

Parthenon sculptures — ownership and possible loans

34:19

Music and Dance Scheme — funding uplift and access

36:24

Arts education — local providers, VAT and bursaries

38:25

UNESCO World Heritage Sites — funding routes and development risks

41:37

Creative industries — freelancers, ticket levy and venue support

44:17

DCMS questions — ticketing, tourism and touring artists

52:50

Ticket touting bill — scope, timing and international fans

52:50

Tourism support — VAT relief, theatres and tax burden

55:52

Touring artists post-Brexit — Select Committee recommendations

59:32

DCMS — BBC charter, public service broadcasting and media standards

47:32

BBC charter review and public service broadcasting

47:32

BBC charter review — funding and service cuts

47:32

BBC governance — Parliament’s role in charter review

51:04

Topical question — TV abuse allegations and future of public service broadcasting

01:02:45

Topical DCMS questions — broadcasting, AI, youth and grassroots sport

01:02:45

Topical opening — TV abuse allegations and public service broadcasting

01:02:45

Topical clash — DCMS spending, welfare and arts investment

01:05:12

Women’s sport, AI and creative industries, youth and grassroots support

01:06:55

BBC charter, local culture support and music venues

01:10:38

BBC radio news, local culture funding and grassroots music venues

01:10:38

Parliamentary Commissions and Church Commissioners — accessibility and community support

01:14:22

Commission and Church questions — accessibility, estate policy, church role

01:14:22

Transition to Commission questions — electoral accessibility for blind voters

01:14:22

Parliamentary estate — cruelty-free cleaning products

01:17:09

Church Commissioners — accessibility and Changing Places toilets

01:18:30

Church community role — cost of living support

01:20:29

Places of Worship Renewal Fund — England focus, devolved gap and rural churches

01:22:14

House of Commons Commission — Education Outreach Service digitalisation

01:25:44

Church Commissioners — protection of Palestinian Christians and detention cases

01:29:12

Home Office — statutory grooming gangs inquiry scrutiny

01:32:59

Urgent question and statutory inquiry remit

01:32:59

Procedural move and initial inquiry update

01:32:59

Procedural shift — move to urgent question on grooming gangs inquiry

01:32:59

Home Office Minister — update on grooming gangs inquiry

01:33:08

Urgent questioner — early release, sentencing and victim confidence

01:36:43

Minister’s defence of delivery and policing resources

01:39:01

Minister — prisons capacity, Casey recommendations and inquiry timetable

01:39:01

Northumbria Police — resources, culture and Operation Beaconport

01:41:56

Statutory grooming gangs inquiry — design, implementation, and political implications

01:43:52

Implementation of recommendations and victim-centred framework

01:43:52

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — implementation of Casey and past inquiry recommendations

01:43:52

Victims at the centre — support, charter and survivor focus

01:46:12

Statutory grooming gangs inquiry — scope, bias and operations

01:47:13

Ethnicity data, police resistance and accountability for past failures

01:47:13

Institutional bias, professional curiosity and information sharing

01:48:55

Backbench MP — inquiry duration and independence

01:50:17

Operation Beaconport — NCA role and reopened cases

01:52:07

Devolved nations — Welsh area request and Scottish coordination

01:53:43

Quashed convictions — extending scope and proactive guidance

01:55:20

MP engagement, rhetoric and enforcement measures

01:56:31

Constituency coverage — how MPs can engage with inquiry

01:56:31

Great Yarmouth report — integrating recommendations and ongoing action

01:57:38

Political rhetoric — language, online tropes and MP safety

01:59:17

Ethnicity recording and foreign national offenders — next steps

02:01:16

Leader of the House — forthcoming business and cross‑cutting constituency issues

02:02:35

Leader of the House — forthcoming business and initial questions

02:02:35

Government business statement and domestic policy challenges

02:02:35

Government business statement and defence–welfare clash

02:02:35

Business Statement — late June and early July agenda

02:02:35

Acting Shadow Leader — attacks on defence, welfare and leadership

02:05:35

Leader of the House — tributes, security legislation and welfare rebuttal

02:09:59

Local transport, NHS pressures and community funding

02:13:28

Kent bus charges — impact on TfL routes to hospital and retail hub

02:13:28

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — NHS corridor care and crumbling estates

02:14:47

Community races and regional heritage — request for funding debate

02:17:30

Backbench Business Chair — Estimates Day debates and yoga health benefits

02:19:02

Backbench constituency cases — infrastructure, services and standards

02:22:44

Constituency issues — infrastructure, pensions, rights and standards

02:22:44

Regional infrastructure, public services and youth provision

02:22:44

Ashington–Blyth rail line — case for extension to Newbiggin

02:22:44

Capita and Civil Service pensions — backlog and demand for ministerial statement

02:24:24

Housing targets, Enfield scheme cancellation and new towns policy

02:26:14

Coastguard volunteers’ compensation changes and Better Youth Spaces Fund

02:27:38

Pensions, democratic heritage, consular support, tourism VAT

02:30:27

Civil Service pensions again — unpaid retirees and pressure on Capita

02:30:27

Chartism, Newport Rising and recognition of democratic movements

02:31:42

Gaza flotilla detainee — consular support for UK aid workers

02:34:05

Summer of savings — tourism VAT cuts and evaluation

02:35:24

Standards in politics and LGBT community protections

02:36:30

Civility in politics — racist councillor posts and party discipline

02:36:30

Pride Month — Reform council attacks on LGBT library displays

02:37:44

Local infrastructure, safety and planning pressures

02:39:15

Transport infrastructure, coastguard pay and business taxation

02:39:15

M49 ghost junction — National Highways accountability

02:39:15

Grassroots football success and US Declaration anniversary

02:40:20

Volunteer Coastguards — pay changes after Court of Appeal ruling

02:42:19

Dissolved companies — accessing HMRC corporation tax repayments

02:43:46

Local safety, housing pressure and planning policy

02:44:50

Social media ban under‑16 — Leo’s Safe Haven and online harms

02:44:50

Housing pressures — speculative planning and long‑term empty homes

02:46:29

Road safety by A1 — Highways Agency responsibility and delay

02:47:31

National Planning Policy Framework — growth vs green space

02:49:29

Business Questions — health, social care and constituency policy issues

02:50:41

Health, social care funding and migrant access

02:50:41

Social care funding, care workforce standards and community services

02:50:41

Scottish social care funding gap — impact on disability services

02:50:41

Professional standards in social care — call for carers register

02:52:11

Youth environment access, preventative health gyms and high street support

02:53:32

Asylum processing and access to primary care

02:58:34

Asylum system — interpreter shortages and cancelled interviews

02:58:34

GP list removals (FP69) — equality impact on vulnerable patients

02:59:40

Business Questions — constituency issues and policy follow‑ups

03:00:23

Community sport, international human rights and rural environment

03:00:23

Local football clubs — community role and youth inspiration

03:00:23

Vietnam — arrests of Christians and freedom of religion

03:01:33

Dartmoor ponies — Natural England’s role and Fursdon review

03:02:46

Onshore wind farm near Yorkshire Dales — local landscape and consent

03:03:51

Business Questions — constituency cases and policy follow‑ups

03:05:18

Rising workplace temperatures — review of health and safety code

03:05:18

Business Questions — Morrisons closure and local post office access

03:06:12

Business Questions — international paternity case and police failings

03:07:37

Business Questions — unpaid tribunal awards and enforcement reform

03:08:31

Business Questions — hospice and palliative care funding pressures

03:09:35

Business Questions — redefining the role and resourcing of MPs

03:10:29

Select Committee statements — R&D and justice

03:12:52

Select Committee statements — R&D and justice

03:12:52

Science, Innovation and Technology Committee statement — regional R&D and clusters

03:12:52

Procedural transition — introducing the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee statement

03:12:52

SIT Committee chair — inquiry on regional innovation, clusters and funding imbalance

03:13:46

SIT Committee chair — R&D data gaps and government response

03:19:27

Members’ questions — regional R&D imbalances, devolution and towns

03:23:17

Justice Committee — Courts and Tribunals Bill and Leveson follow‑up

03:34:01

Justice Committee statement — Courts and Tribunals Bill, backlog and Leveson review

03:34:01

Justice Committee chair — magistrates’ capacity, appeals and judge‑only trials

03:36:58

Members’ questions — magistrate recruitment, judicial diversity and bench division scope

03:43:26

Context and backbench scrutiny of compensation framework

03:49:14

Opening of debate and redress framework

03:49:14

Opening of debate and moral case for compensation

03:49:14

Opening of infected blood compensation debate

03:49:14

Procedural shift — opening of infected blood compensation debate

03:49:14

Chair of APPG — history of contaminated blood scandal and unethical testing

03:49:45

Compensation scheme design and practical shortcomings

03:58:10

Compensation design — hepatitis B parity, NAO lessons and backdating

03:58:10

Evidence burdens, carers’ losses and timelines across UK nations

04:01:32

Oversight body and current estate compensation problems

04:05:56

Statutory oversight and compensation framework

04:05:56

Public inquiry oversight — call for statutory body and Hillsborough law

04:05:56

East Hampshire MP — Treloar’s victims, compensation design and criminal investigation

04:11:09

Constituency cases — estate exclusions and IBCA delays

04:20:55

Newport East MP — estates excluded and pace of payments

04:20:55

Sir Julian Lewis — constituent cases, thalassaemia and interferon

04:25:12

Sir Julian Lewis — IBCA delays and two‑tier estate compensation

04:34:20

Backbench scrutiny — compensation design and Hillsborough Law

04:38:30

Compensation scheme design, estates and evidential barriers

04:38:30

Labour MP Lavery — systemic failings in compensation scheme

04:38:30

Blyth and Ashington MP — moral urgency and scheme shortcomings

04:38:30

Scheme design issues — interferon, estate claims and carers

04:43:18

Pace of payments, haemophilia centre burdens and regulation 12

04:48:36

Bereaved families, estates and delayed access to compensation

04:52:39

Conservative MP — estate case and treatment-based discrimination

04:52:39

Nia Griffith — elderly parents, estates and application process

05:00:42

Pete Wishart — campaign history, progress and delays

05:10:41

Compensation scheme — interferon harms, estates and proof

05:18:29

Wishart — interferon harms, unethical research and devolved schemes

05:18:29

Shadow Minister — pace of payments, estates and evidential barriers

05:36:33

Backbench and Lib Dem MPs — constituent cases and Hillsborough Law

05:23:15

Labour MPs — estates, oversight and Hillsborough Law

05:23:15

Hillsborough Law — duty of candour and oversight body

05:23:15

Backbench Labour MP — constituent case, estates and Hillsborough Law

05:27:15

Shadow Minister — pace of payments, estates and evidential barriers

05:36:33

Backbench and Lib Dem MPs — individual cases, urgency and Hillsborough Law

05:43:55

Conservative backbencher — constituent Hepatitis C case and lost records

05:43:55

Clinician-MP — early AIDS cases and urgency on compensation

05:48:24

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — scale of scandal, slow payments and Hillsborough Law

05:50:56

Infected blood compensation and River Otter pollution

05:57:11

Infected blood compensation and River Otter pollution debates

05:57:11

Infected blood compensation — opposition demands and government response

05:57:11

Shadow Minister — compensation scope, estates and evidential barriers

05:57:11

Shadow Minister — progress acknowledged, but estates and CPI uprating

05:57:11

Shadow Minister — evidential barriers and burden of proof

06:02:59

Paymaster General — compensation scheme progress and unresolved issues

06:07:42

Paymaster General — tributes, case follow‑up and payment figures

06:07:42

Paymaster General — IBCA pace, evidence standards and feedback mechanism

06:12:19

Paymaster General — interferon awards and Hillsborough Law

06:25:10

House business and opening of River Otter pollution debate

06:30:46

House business — infected blood closure, Heathrow statement, and petition

06:30:46

Closure of infected blood debate and Heathrow expansion point of order

06:30:46

Petition — Pilning warehouse development and 1957 consent

06:33:39

Adjournment — River Otter pollution, data and company performance

06:34:43

Adjournment opened — River Otter sewage pollution and citizen science

06:34:43

River Otter — South West Water performance, phosphate and housing impacts

06:39:35

River Otter — Ofwat findings, regulator gaps and petition on bonuses

06:44:27

Ministerial response on water regulation and Clean Water Bill

06:48:31

Ministerial response — regulation, investment and Clean Water Bill

06:48:31

Minister’s response — River Otter condition, Environment Agency action and farm pollution

06:48:31

Minister — investment programme, Water Special Measures Act and enforcement on South West Water

06:52:41

Minister — bonus loopholes, Budleigh Salterton and Clean Water Bill on rainwater management

06:56:22

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House of Commons

18 June 2026

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 Actual start 09:00 House of Commons

34:19 - 34:22

Speaker 4

Motion on the polls return minister to move.

34:22 - 34:23

I beg to move.

34:23 - 34:29

Speaker 2

Right, the question is to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. We start with Andrew George.

34:29 - 34:31

Speaker 1

Number one, Mr. Speaker.

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